April 2012 4 th New Forest North (Eling) Sea Scouts Sea Scouts NEWSLETTER 2012 See our web site at www.elingseascouts.org.uk for news about future events. 1 All the sections are up and running after Christmas and have some exciting section nights planned. By the time you read this our Scout section and Relentless Explorers will have already competed in the RN Swimming Gala, whilst the Beavers have celebrated the Chinese New Year in there own way. In this the Queens 60th anniversary there are many activities, which our group will be involved in. The first is Founders Day, which we are running this year and will take the form of a camp- fire at Ferny Crofts towards the end of February. SEA SCOUTS N E W S L E T T E R Leader’s welcome Scouting 2012 Service awards Page 1-2 Chairman’s corner A fantastic builing on the shore of Testwood Lake Help needed! Page 3 Beavers Want to join? Page 4 Cubs Recent activities Page 5-6 Scouts Recent activities Page 7-8 Explorers Page 9 Fundraising and 2012 Calendar Sponsor by Shopping Online and Recycling Donkey Derby Page 10-14 Dear all Welcome to our first Newsletter for 2012 The group scouting year has now kicked off and you will find all the programmes on our website. Before I go any further I would like to say a huge thank you to a couple of people who have just left the group. Maggie Peall has been working as an Asst. Cub Scout Leader for ten years and done a fantastic job in supporting Vanessa. Jack Wotherspoon has guided the group as treasurer through some exciting times and kept us on the financial straight and narrow. To both we wish them all the best for the future and thank them for the sterling work they have done. We also have two people joining the group. Michael Suter whose son has just joined our Beaver section is our new treasurer and Sue Wotherspoon has taken on the role of membership secretary, on behalf of the group we welcome you both to the group and wish you well.
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April 2012 4th New Forest North (Eling) Sea Scouts
Sea Scouts N E W S L E T T E R 2 0 1 2
See our web site at www.elingseascouts.org.uk for news about future events. 1
All the sections are up and running after Christmas and have some exciting section nights planned. By the time you read this our Scout section and Relentless Explorers will have already competed in the RN Swimming Gala, whilst the Beavers have celebrated the Chinese New Year in there own way. In this the Queens 60th anniversary there are many activities, which our group will be involved in. The first is Founders Day, which we are running this year and will take the form of a camp-fire at Ferny Crofts towards the end of February.
SEA SCOUTS N E W S L E T T E R Leader’s
welcome
Scouting 2012
Service awards
Page 1-2
Chairman’s corner
A fantastic builing on
the shore of Testwood
Lake
Help needed! Page 3
Beavers
Want to join?Page 4
Cubs Recent activitiesPage 5-6
Scouts
Recent activitiesPage 7-8
Explorers
Page 9
Fundraising and
2012 Calendar
Sponsor by Shopping
Online and Recycling
Donkey Derby
Page 10-14
Dear all Welcome to our first Newsletter for 2012
The group scouting year has now kicked off and you will find all the programmes on our website. Before I go any further I would like to say a huge thank you to a couple of people who have just left the group. Maggie Peall has been working as an Asst. Cub Scout Leader for ten years and done a fantastic job in supporting Vanessa. Jack Wotherspoon has guided the group as treasurer through some exciting
times and kept us on the financial straight and narrow. To both we wish them all the best for
the future and thank them for the sterling work they have done.
We also have two people joining the group. Michael Suter whose son has just
joined our Beaver section is our new treasurer and Sue Wotherspoon has taken on the
role of membership secretary, on behalf of the group we welcome you both to the group and wish you well.
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Brian, Dorothea (Fundraising chair) and I held parent meetings before Christmas. The reason for this was to explain to parents how our group works and the need for help in areas such as fundraising and especially the need for people to work on this committee to help organise and plan our fundraising year. To date I have to say that no one has come forward from the group. If we are to keep a thriving group and raise the money we need to continue for this to happen we must have people taking on these roles. Please think about this and contact one of the committee to find out more.
Derrick and Shirley Smith have stepped down after about 9 years working with the Beaver colony. Derrick was Beaver Leader and Shirley was an Assistant Beaver Leader. They have been great stalwarts within the colony helping it to develop and grow.
Working with the other leaders and Young leaders they have left it in fantastic shape for our current and future children. We are very fortunate that they will not be leaving the group Derrick is taking on a Quarter Master role and Shirley will be helping out with the fundraising committee. So thankfully we still be seeing them around the group.Well done to both of you and we wish you all the best in your new roles.
I would like to finish on a really happy note. In recognition of their hard work within the group the following people have been given the following awards:
SERVICE AWARDSSERVICE AWARDS
Amanda White 25yrs service award
John Pickering 5yrs service award
John Wotherspoon 5yrs service award
Karen Pickering 5yrs 5yrs service award
Shirley Smith 5yrs 5yrs service award
Nicholas Scott 5yrs service award
Congratulations to you all on your fantastic support to the group Whatever else you are doing this spring I ask you to get involved with our group, get active
and together we can continue to provide the best scouting for your children.
Happy scouting in 2012! Paul Bullock Group Scout Leader
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4TH NFN ELING SEA SCOUTS NEWS 2012
Donkey DerbySATURDAY 26TH MAY 20121-5PM
ELING RECREATION GROUND
Chairman's Corner
Welcome to another exciting year for Eling Sea Scouts. With a building shell ready for internal fit-out, we are pulling together funding, materials etc. to get the new building ready for use. Initially for boating, and then upstairs for general Scouting. The building looks fantastic on the shore of Testwood Lake - we desperately want to get it ready for moving in.
We have a few changes to the admin leadership team, with a new treasurer (Michael Suter) replacing Jack Wotherspoon after 5 years fantastic work - thanks Jack. Lisa Marshall has been working out of the country for the last few minutes so we've
been trying to make do without a secretary, but we're looking forward to seeing Lisa back so we don't have to put up with my poor minute taking any more! Later this year, Eric Hills, our Quartermaster, will be moving North to Derbyshire, so we confirming plans for a team to take on managing our general equipment (we have a few people keen to be involved, just working out how best to arrange it). And we've had some shuffling around of parents' reps as their children move up through the sections. Not all sections confirmed yet, but I'm pleased to welcome back Sarah Abbess, previously a Scout parent rep, and now our first ever Relentless Explorers parents' rep on the Group Executive.
As ever, we are keen to see more help so that we can continue to offer excellent Scouting with excellent support. The fundraising team in particular, covering Donkey Derby as well as many other events and activities, has only 5 members and really need more help. Please let me or Dorothea Kennard know if you can help in any way, even if you can't make it to meetings there are plenty of jobs to be done.
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Eling Beavers joined over 3500 Beavers, Parents and Leaders for a day of fun and adventure at Paulton's Park.
From 8am the Colonies started to arrive at the New Forest Adventure Park, creating a colourful show with their bright blue sweats and Group neckers.
A special guest was on hand to greet the youngsters as they arrived; the County's latest recruit, "Big Beaver", who high-fived the excited Colonies.
All day long the youngsters enjoyed the rides, blessed by dry weather. Another special guest, Santa Claus, spoke with each Beaver and gave them a Christmas present.Big Beaver joined them on the rides, screaming as loudly as anyone. Adam, the County Commissioner, was so pleased with Big Beaver, that he presented him with his Wood Beads...
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e Eling Beavers joined over 3500 Beavers, Parents and Leaers for a day of fun and adventure A special guest won hand to greet the youngsters as they
Picture courtesy of Frank Wright
•Our Beavers Colony meets inTotton on Tuesday nights.
•Beaver Scouts are aged 6 to 8. •At 8 they swim up into the Cub Scout Pack.
•See below for some of the exciting things they have been up to at events and meetings. WANT TO JOIN?
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(Picture courtesy of Vanessa Slawson)
Waingunga Cubs Report January - April 2012
We were busy last term with a variety of badges and challenge award work. After the new year we started our Scientist Badge and learnt about a whole host of stuff from the mad scientist who came along to help us do our experiments! Thank you to Sanja, one of our Explorer Scout leaders for her expertise and for turning up in her white coat – it was great fun.
We have also been working hard at our Fitness Challenge this term as well. We have to try 2 new sports so we invited Lynden Bowen (a Cub Leader at Copythorne) along to teach us some country dancing – it certainly made us puff so it must be good for us! As part of this award we have also looked at what other exercise we do regularly and learnt about eating healthily.
To be continued...
Waingunga Cubs
Our Cub Pack meets in Totton on Wednesday nights. Cub Scouts are aged 8 to 10 1/2.
At 10 1/2 they move up into the Scout Troop.
See below for some of the exciting things they have been up to at events and meetings. WANT TO JOIN?
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Continued :
Waingunga Cubs ReportJanuary - April 2012
In early March we ran the annual Parent and Cub camp at Ferny Croft Scout centre and had a splendid weekend trying new activities –with 12 Cubs and 12 parents taking part it was a great weekend. Thank you to everyone who joined in – the best bit has to be the marshmallows on the campfire?
The Founders Day campfire was also well attended and we were pleased to be able to invest Maria (Kaa) one of our Assistant Cub Scout Leaders that night. A special night to make your promise for anyone.
We had to say good bye to Maggie Peall (Rikki) in January as has moved back to Lincolnshire. Maggie had been with us for 10 years after moving down to Southampton in 2002 – we will miss her ‘kneckers’ and woggles. Thank you Maggie for being such an inspiration and joy to work with, there are many Cubs who could not have done their Scouting without your extra help and support.
On the other hand - we have welcomed Robyn Wines (Raksha), a Cub leader from Somerset to the Pack. She has just moved to Totton with her work and has decided to continue her Scouting with Eling Cubs. I hope you enjoy your time with us Robyn.
We have said our goodbyes to a number of Cubs who have all transferred to the Scout
troop – Ruben Kidby, Jarvis Gray, Jevan Hales and Daniel McClaren have now all completed their Silver Chief Scout Award – well done guys a really big achievement. Enjoy your time in the Scout troop.
We have also welcomed 4 beavers from the Colony – James, Justin, Jessica and Liam have all been invested as Cubs and getting stuck into the activities we do. Very exciting to see our young members moving from one section to another.
We are not about to start the summer activities where most of our time we will be out and about. If you miss a meeting then please send me a text to find out where we are the following week. After all we are now sc………………….outs!!!!
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Cooking Competition
After some weeks of menu planning , list writing, shopping, and creating time plans, Zach led us boldly into the District cooking competition. We entered two teams this year and started feeling a little worried when we saw the opposition. Most of them looked like they could handle a saucepan or two! We set to work laying the table and handing in our costing and menus to the judges. We made a good start and prepared the desert so that it would set in time. On to the starter and main. The roux sauce went well with no lumps and we all helped prepare the vegetables for the dip and Bolognese sauce. The judges came around and tasted our meal, and then we all tucked in to the dishes we had made. So far so good, all we had to do was to clear away and that’s when it happened! Tom started to flag and became allergic to washing up!
We all tried to speed up but could not go any faster and the final few point went down the drain with the washing up water. After a very brave battle we came away with 2nd place and our other team were 3rd. I am sure that when we are older and wiser next year we will be back.
Emma Cully
Intrepid Patrol
Caving Trip
On a warm sunny Sunday in March 5 Scouts , 1 Leader and 1 young leader from Warrior Troop went caving with the Hampshire Scout Caving Club. We went to the popular caving regions in the Mendip Hills. Mendip caves tend to be shorter with Swindon’s Hole being the longest at just under 10km. Mendip caves are generally smaller passages with more crawling and less vertical pitches and although shorter in length the number of caves in a small area is very high which makes it a very popular area for beginners . Caving offers all kinds of adventures and experiences for novices and experts alike and the first steps into the darkness was made a lot easier knowing that the Hampshire Scout instructors had visited the caves many times before. After the initial nerves and concerns about getting lost or stuck I began to enjoy this new experience and would recommend everyone to have a go. It was a great day out.
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Can your business help to raise money for us?
If you make business purchases for your company, you can support us by making these purchases with easyfundraising. There's an extensive list of retailers used by businesses including Staples, Viking, Rymans, DELL, PC World, Apple, Eurostar, Virgin, thetrainline, O2, Vodafone and many more.
Here are lots of ways in which you can help:
FUNDRAISING
We meet very informally usually on the 2nd Monday of the month to organise ways to raise money not only for our new HQ but also fund new or replacement equipment for the group.
Here are lots of ways in which you can help:-
Come along to our meetings or ask to be included in our mailing list – there could be something you could help with if you can’t make it to the meeting.
Shop Online’n Raise Money!Have you heard about easyfundraising yet? It’s the easiest way to help raise money for 4th New Forest North Sea Scouts! If you already shop online with retailers such as Amazon, M&S, Argos, John Lewis, Comet, Vodafone, eBay, Boden and Play.com to name but a few, then we need you to sign up for free to raise money while you shop!
So how does it work? You shop directly with the retailer as you would normally, but if you sign up to www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/4thnewforestnorthseascouts for free and use the links on the easyfundraising site to take you to the retailer, then a percentage of whatever you spend comes directly to us at no extra cost to yourself. And more!
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Beautiful Testwood Lakes. Make a donation towards our Aquativity Building. Desperately want to get it ready for moving in.
SellersAnyone selling on eBay can list an eBay for Charity item and donate a percentage to the group.
BuyersDonate at checkout
When you pay through eBay Checkout for an item you’ve won, you have the option to add a small donation of £1 to the group
You can choose which charity (or charities) you see in eBay Checkout on the “My Favourite Charities” page within your Donation Account.
Netley Marsh Steam Rally Litter Pick 21-23 July 2012
We need volunteers to litter pick on Saturday 21st July and Sunday 22nd July from7.30-9am and on Monday 23 July from 6pm. Those helping on the morning clear ups will get wristbands which allow entry to the event over the weekend. Last year we received £600 from the Steam Rally Committee who were also very generous in making a donation of £2000 towards our Aquativity project.
Shop Online
Employer match funding
In the last twelve months we
have received fund matched
donations of £750 from
ExxonMobil, £500 from Lloyds,
£100 from Ordnance Survey
and £100 from Diverse Yachts
Services at Hamble.
Do you or any members of your family work in the private sector? If so please check your employer’s policy on charitable giving/corporate responsibility
Download the find and remind toolbar to make it even easier and the group will receive 50p. - Wherever you are on the web, Find & Remind will automatically alert you when a donation is available from a retailer.
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SATURDAY 26TH MAY 2012
1-5PM
ELING RECREATION GROUND
Now in its 17th year, this is our biggest fundraiser of the year, raising approx £6000 in
2011. To continue to make this a success we need everyone to help in some way. We need help in sourcing equipment and donations for prizes, there are lots of jobs which need doing in the run up to the event and volunteers are needed to set up the day before and on the morning of the 26th, man stalls and help clear up at the end.
Please keep the day free (and the 25th as well if possible) and contact the fundraising committee to find out how you can help. All money raised will help to fund the building of the new Aquativity Centre at Testwood Lakes.
Charity Number 302268
Just a note to your Diary:
4th New Forest North (Eling) Sea Scouts Aquativity Projecthttp://aquativity.blogspot.co.uk/
